Rocky Point Chaos, Solo Moves & Finding Your People

Rocky Point stories, solo moves, and real-life perspective.

In this episode, I break down a birthday trip to Rocky Point that turned into a mix of chaos, funny moments, and those “you had to be there” situations. From big group energy to unexpected moments, it was one of those weekends that makes you step back and think.

That leads into something bigger — doing things on your own. From solo coffee runs to going to events like Back To The Future in concert and planning WonderCon, I talk about not waiting on people and learning how to move on your own time.

I also get into how hard it can be to find your people, enjoying what you enjoy without needing validation, and why my scooter might be one of the best investments I’ve made lately.

Thank you for listening now please go back and check out some of my previous episodes.

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SPEAKER_02 0:40

What's up, ladies and gentlemen? I am Faddy Shay. This is the Odd Nerd. This is episode 99. And people forget that I'm still hood, baby. I am a nerd. That's why I call myself an odd nerd because I will slap the shh. I love y'all, man. But I'm from Kansas City, Missouri, and as you hear in the background, I just got some some rush. I used to listen to when I was a teenager whipping, and it was some some of my local niggas, you know what I'm saying? What?

SPEAKER_01 1:16

Okay, I gotta stop it. My bad, y'all. XB D dubs.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

Okay, my bad, y'all. What's up, ladies and gentlemen? I'm Thaddeus Shade. You listened to uh The Odd Nerd, and it's episode 99. And uh let's rock and roll, let's get right to it. I didn't do an episode last week, dude, because I fucking traveled to like Rocky Point, dude. It was crazy. I got to Rocky Point. So yeah, last week I didn't do an episode, and I should be on my hundredth episode, which is taking me a very long time to get to because I always stop and go, but um last week we went to Rocky Point for uh my guy Davy on GQ's birthday, and he's turning 55, and it was important to him that we got a bunch of people together to go down. No, I'm just playing, but we went down there for his birthday. Uh happy birthday, and we went down there and um it started out. We had to, we you know, it's supposed to be like eight to nine of us that was going. Looked up, it's like 16 that ended up going, 16, 17 people were there. And he uh found these villas that were so we usually go when we go, we usually go to Incantonay Towers, right? And Cantona Towers is a little bit down from the villas that we got. In Cantonate Towers is my spot because when you go in there, we get this one spot and it's got all the motherfucking Star Wars figures all in. It's like a Star Wars, I don't know what you want to call it, but it's like high up, and I don't like heights, but it's high up, and they got Star Wars posters and figurines. That's my spot like to stay at. That's where I like to spare. That's where that's where I like to be at. Because there, you know, on the resort, I feel cool. I feel VIP. You know what I'm saying? President Obama shade. That's how I feel when I'm there. And I got my Star Wars room, and I can look at Princess Leia and Luke, you know what I'm saying? Obi-Wan and the boys, Darth Vader and the boys. I get to look at him, I get to see him, you know. And uh, we didn't do that this time. He got a he got some villas. Um think them joints was uh uh six-palm villas. So he had to start out by because the number increased, you know. I'm I'm an OG, I'm chilling. I had visions of going down there by the water, sitting deep down by the water, looking out into the ocean, while I watched Dorothy Rose, Blanche and Sophia cook in the kitchen and make jokes upon each other. That's what I wanted to do. That's what I wanted to do. Turn out it was like a real world episode. I was in it at my age, man. That's what the job does to you, though. The job finds a way to keep you young. You stay around young folks, young folks come with you on the trip and they have a blast. Me, I'm just like, damn, I was going to, I like to get me a little water in, a little golden girls activity while I watch the water just kind of rush up on the sand. And here I am, you know, um, watching folks that I know that should teach videos on how to consume tequila and then go out to try to be a professional assassin. These people can drink, and I mean these humans can get down. Before we get there, we had to get uh a vehicle. My guy GQ found somebody that knew somebody that knew somebody that had a company that rents sprinter vans or vans to Rocky Point. Now that sounds sketch that you specifically have this car company that you allow folks to rent to go down to Rocky Point. Now, I'm not judging nobody. You got to make your ducats how you make your ducats, ladies and gentlemen. But I was like, is this legit? He's like, Man, I went down there, it's legit to have other cars and shit. And I think he paid like $1,100, $1,1100 clean for the van machine. So um then we went to a location where everybody was parked. Now when I pulled up, I said, Oh, there's more souls going. Because I didn't know at the time. Now my guy GQ is a very popular guy. I didn't know at the time, you know, that that I was gonna look up and the eight was gonna turn into 16. But when I got there, I realized that's what's going on. That's what's going on, man. It's a lot of bodies, man. And we got us, we got this van, and then we had to have somebody else drive because we had a lot of bodies going, man. And it was it was a lot of lot of us. And then, you know, you know, if you look at my past, you listen to my past episodes, you know I done had some, I done had a border trouble. You know, and you know how I feel when I get down, I get to going, and I get to get nervous when I get close to the border. But it was cool, man, because you're traveling with a bunch of people. So you would hope that if anybody got to get their ass whooped by border patrol, it's not you because you got a good high choice of bodies. You can go through and be like, nah, I think we whooped up on you a couple times. They're talking about me. I think we got you a couple times. We ain't worried about you. Let's get somebody small. We're gonna get somebody small, we're gonna whoop them up in the back room with the with the phone books and the tables and the chairs. And when I went down, I ain't like that border patrol shit that I went through, but but this time I wasn't really tripping because we had a lot of bodies with us. I was good. I was I was feeling good about myself. I was happy, I was good. And we loaded up into the and uh and surprisingly, you know, when we left, it was raining. You know, we don't get a lot of rain down here in the valley of the suns. We don't get it out of the red down here in the valley of the sun. It was raining, man. And that's how we kicked off the trip. And and it was cool because I it's like uh being on a field trip with a bunch of bunch of students when you was when you was in school and you're rolling out, and you're like, you know, it's an exciting time because you're with a bunch of your your classmates and you're going to a place like the museum or something. But this was you go into some some villas, and it's probably gonna be some freaky shit that happens, but it ain't like I guess it's a little different from the class shit because you go into class, you're gonna learn and shit. Okay, it's a little different, but we got down there and got through the border. Border was easy. They was real cool because I know a lot of people had a lot of concerns, including myself, about you know what took place about a month ago with you know, cartel bosses getting, you know, about them getting a little, you know, and there was a little bit of concern about that. And I had my own concerns and I did my studying. Shade kept an eye on it. I kept an eye on that thing. See what was cracking. If I was gonna get into some smoke down there, I was I kept an eye on that thing and went to the border, it was real easy. Pulled up to the villas, the villas was beautiful. I think each villa held about six to eight people. I always say six to eight people because I'm not for sure. I should have just asked GQ, but um, each villa held about six to eight people. We ended up with like four villas. Well, about four villas. Uh, and you know, let's get into this now. 16 people 15 out of the 16. Um, if consuming tequila would save the world, the 15 out of the 16 could save the world. God came down and said, you know what? I'm gonna smoke all y'all out, unless you could drink all the tequila in the world. Well, the 15 out of the 16 people I was with, they'd be a part of that challenge. And I think we'd be good to go. I love those people. But um, when we got there, beautiful villas, everything was clean, nice. You see the water walk out. You walk out to the back, you got two big pools, you got two uh hot tubs, you got a swing set that swings, and you can look out to the ocean, you got like little hammocks and stuff. It's a very beautiful spot. And um the thing that I didn't know that that was what was going to happen on top of that, because you didn't really understand what you were getting yourself into from the visuals, from the photos, there's not a lot of videos on this place. So you could end up, you know, and things could be real different because there's not a lot of videos or like stuff you can really see. Um, I found a few pictures and videos of the villas that we were going to, and I posted them and whatever, and then shared them with the group. And um, but it wasn't a lot. So when you got there, you were kind of like, oh, okay, this is oh yeah, this is the bomb. This the bomb. This, this, this, uh, this peanut butter and jelly with with Kool-Aid on the side bomb. This is bomb, right? So then, um, but when we get there, there are families of whites. Now, when I say white like that, it sounds really bad. But these are families of whites, right? I think there may have been Megan's problem. I think Megan, I'm sorry. She might be white. I think she might have been the only white girl there with us. But everybody else is black and brown. You know what I'm saying? We come from the nightlife industry. So here you are, spring break. Nice white family. And I think they had about dude, it might have been two families stand in the one villa that was next to mine. So how we did it was so it was it was me. Yeah, yeah, I got the this my this my shit. So this my shit. This is how I'm gonna do it. You know what I'm saying? This my shit. So this is how I'm I'm gonna talk about it much. I'm I'm breaking it down. Y'all with me now, y'all here now, y'all stuck with shade now. I have to have a shade. This is a odd nerd. Okay, so listen, there was so it was me and then Soph and then Ambre and her home run and Davion. And I think that was all in mine, right? And we were next to the bigger family, the bigger white family, right? We'll call them the whites. And they had at least four little ones. Now I'm thinking there's I'm thinking there's two families in there because it was a lot of kids unless you know, moms and moms and pops was just doing, you know what I'm saying? Let's giddy, let's they was getting it on and they was popping them out. I'm not for sure, but it might have been two families in there because it was like like a couple of teenage kids, the couple of like teenage daughters and some teenage boys and some younger ones, and it was real chill. Everybody was real nice. I didn't, I don't think they expected us. Listen, it's hard to listen, white folks. I know. Look, look at I'm looking at the camera, I know it's hard, man. It's hard to be on vacation. You look up and say, Oh, it's the Negroes. I understand this, I do, dude, because you wanted to go down a vacation and you want to relax and you look up and say, Oh shit, and that's really what it turned into was oh shit. Now, this family, they were, like I said, nice looking family. You know, it's nothing, they didn't, they didn't look a meth smoking family at all. They were nice looking, they were out there for a vacation. Now, and then so then we they had the the last one, we were next to them, and then boom, it stops, and then there's another set, and one of our group had that set, and then the next set we had that next one after that, and then there was another one. There's another family there. Now, that seemed like just a straight couple, but they all knew each other, right? They knew each other because they would could they would they would meet up at the farther pool. So the pools was right there. You see the videos that I posted. The pools is right there, but they seem to kind of like owned the the the one to the right that we was on the side of. They felt like they kind of owned and said, Hey, we was here first. You know how we do, we like to take shit. You know, you know, we like to take. I'm sorry, I'm just joking. These just jokes. I swear it's just jokes. Okay, so they kind of taking that one, right? So you would see that family or that couple come from there to meet with them, and they were doing real cool white shit, man. They like they would they had like kayaks and like rafting boats and like paddles, and they were just doing family vacation shit, and we were there to consume alcohol, see some twerking, and destroy shit, ladies and gentlemen. We were there to destroy shit, not me, not me, the same. I was there to watch the water relax and allow uh uh Dorothy, Blanche, Sophia, and Rose to rock my ass to sleep. I was there to chill, I was there to be a good human, I was a good Samaritan. My other people that I was with who are awesome people were there to have a good time. They was gonna get to drink a drink on, they was gonna get to eat to eat on. It might have been, you know what I'm saying? It might have been a little, you know what I'm saying? Because it was like, I'll be real with y'all. Let me see. Let me see. Um six dudes? Eleven women? Oh, I can't, it's like that. Six dudes, eleven, ten women, maybe like that. But it wasn't, it ain't like that. It wasn't like, you know, Diddy had broke out of jail and ran up to his last place he owned. It's like, we're gonna get a party going on. And it wasn't like that. It wasn't like that. It was just it was a good time, and you get the liquor going, everybody having a good time, smiling. When no Diddy Freak Fest 4.0 or nothing like that. It was just a good time where motherfuckers could go and and and drink and and relax and also party, play music, and then hit the pool in the hot tub. Now, the cool thing about this is you're connected to the in Kansas A Towers. So I just tell you about that's my place I want to go. When I go down to that, when I go down that area, that's where I want to go. I want to go stay up at the top with Star Wars figurines. Doom, doom, d-un, dun, d dun. But you're at least connected to the resort, so you can go up there and you can eat at the restaurants on there, and you can go get into the lazy river, which I told you about in previous episodes that I was in the lazy river, and then you know I can't swim. Shea can't swim, I can't survive. I ain't gonna lie to you. I can't survive, you know what I'm saying? I can't survive because I can't swim, but um, you're connected to that, so you could go up there, they give you wristbands, and you can use the amenities um and all the cool stuff on that joint. From what I what what happened to us, we was able to, but we've been there quite a few times. I don't like to brag. I'm not saying that when we was walking on the we were walking up to the beach of the place, I'm not saying that they had two people come out there and roll a red carpet out and what let us walk on that. I'm not saying that. Maybe it did happen, maybe it didn't happen. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't happen. But I'm not saying that, but maybe it did, maybe it did happen. Maybe it did happen, though. I'm not saying we've been there a couple times, we've done spent some duckets up in that hole, and maybe they took care of us. I'm not saying that it didn't. I'm not saying that it did. I'm not saying it didn't. I'm not saying it did, but it might have happened. And we went up there the first night, boom. Ate. And uh, I think we was at the the one bar we was eating. And and I'm being real. I'm talking to y'all real. The the food at the first spot is is okay. I had now you know I'm vegan, so I'm fucked, right? So I had a chickpea chavite ceviche, and that shit, it was like I had to imagine like taking like a flat hair screwdriver that just got done being worked on on a 69 Ford. You take that flat hair screwdriver that was just using that 69 Ford, you take it and you go inside and you dip it in some warm water, right? You take it out with the warm water still dripping, you go over to a white wall and you just start scraping the white wall, and the white wall scrapings from that fall off from that scrape that go onto the plate. That's what the ceviche tasted like. The chickpea ceviche. It was not good at all. And it's not to say that I ain't had nothing from that that ain't the bomb because I fuck with the fries. I fuck with the fries, but that chickpea ceviche cafice, I hadn't had that joint, right? I ain't had that, and they didn't have it the last time I was there. So I was like, oh shit, they gave something for your boy to get down on. And then when I ate it, it was flathead, screwdriver, white wall, chafings, trash. So yeah, it was horrible. But then I also got a little, you know, guacin chips, and that was good because that one restaurant I go to that's over on the other side of the pool. They got one restaurant there where my homie came out with a lot of juice in him. He comes out with a lot of juice in him, and then he makes this salsa right in front of you. He get the vegetables and he get everything together, and he crushing everything and he mixing together, and you like go ahead, bro. And he like, I'm going, bro. And he's putting it all together, he's putting his fingers in this shit. I don't even mind because I know he be washing this shit, he's doing his thing and do-da-do-do, and he pour that sauce into the bowl into an authentic-looking motherfucker bowl. He put it there, and you get to dip it in that shit, and all I could feel is Jesus massaging my shoulders with that saucer because it's so fire, ladies and gentlemen. When I'm telling you, you go down there, you stay in Cantonate Towers. I don't even know the name of the restaurant, it's right there, it's on the shit. You go out there, but when he gets to making that saucer, and he gets to popping and he gets to pooping, when he gets to doing that saucer, oh my god. Oh my god, that sauce is fire. I should you not. I had to drink some water because I got to dehydrated while I do this. But that was our first night chilling, and you don't get a get a chance to do a lot of big group trips like that. I've been fortunate enough to do two of them um to Thailand. Actually, I've done more than normal. Most of the time, people are going on a couple trips. Maybe it's you and your girl, or you and your girl and her friend and her dude, or you know, maybe you get you get a couple of, but I've been for like I've done like a couple of group trips that I don't think a lot of people get a chance to do because I put the video together recently, and people were talking about I had somebody comment, like, you know, eight to sixteen. I'm lucky if I can find four people to go. So people don't really get a chance to do group trips. And when you do group trips, there's something more freeing about like you don't feel a lot of fear when you leave the country. Some people have fear, you know, and um about leaving the country or going place, especially when what happened with the with the cartel balls, you right? And shit's kind of going right, so you don't really know. But when you're with a group like that, like I said, if somebody coming to pull up with the Visi van and they want to put you in the back with your hand duct tape and your mouth duct tape, they got options. So you got a chance. But when it's just four of y'all, it's a good chance they're gonna take all four. You know what I'm saying? And when there's 16 of you like, wait a minute, hold on. We ain't got enough space in our kidnapping van. We gotta pick somebody. We gotta pick a few. We'll we'll take some fingernails and some fingers, but we're gonna take actual bodies. We just gotta figure out who we want to take. There's options now. But when I I went to Thailand, it was like seven or eight of us. Seven? What is it? David Fresh. Six? Wait. Because I can't say the names. Yeah, six of us. Six of us went to Thailand. It's pretty solid. It's pretty solid. That's a good, that's a good solid searching party. If you go missing in Thailand, if you're the one person that goes missing in Thailand, you at least have five souls working to find you. It ain't good if you go out there with four and you're down to three. Because one of them is gonna be hysterical crying all the time. So the two gotta work on trying to be, the two gotta help calm the person down, and then one of them gotta be really smart because they gotta try to get to the police and they gotta be smart about where you was at. Somebody gotta be level-minded. Now you down to one, it's consoling one that probably got to do left and right, one just really smart. It's just too much. It's you ain't got a good chance of survival. When you got five, people got money, people remember more. You could come through and you can talk. That's how you feel so much motherfucking better about traveling out the country. So I've been fortunate to like do some big trips, you know. And I even when I go down, I've been down in Rocky Point now, like it's my third, fourth time. Like, I performed in Rocky Point in this rolling hole hole in the wall club a long time ago.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

Some before some of y'all's even some of y'all was even born. I was down there in Rocket Point. I did they uh my boy Ace Black, he uh he said, Hey man, I got a chance for you uh to perform down there at Rocket Point at a club. It's free. You ain't getting paid for shit, but they're gonna give us some drinks and shit. You wanna come down there and perform? And I told him, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:23

I went down there and I did it. And it was really a hole in the wall because you walked through a hole in the wall to go into the club. And I couldn't, yeah, I couldn't believe at the time that I was doing it because I am what they call a big ass chicken shit. Humans, I slap shit out of you. Humans, kicking your chest, 300 Sparta. Humans, I gave you your elbow, something like Muay Thai. You know, uh, humans, I got a Mike Tyson right. Got a Mike Tyson hook for you. Ghosts, I'm fucked. You know, spiders, fucked. Traveling out the country not knowing all the rules, I'm fucked. Roller coasters, fucked, water is you know, doing some. I'm not that much of a bitch. Man, hold on, dog. I'm up here telling y'all all my fears. I ain't that much of a bitch, ladies and gentlemen. I'm not telling y'all all my fears like that, man. But we had a good time. And what I learned in trying to do group settings like this, and this won't be my whole episode, so just bear with me. I know I'm fun and entertaining, just stay here. So look, what I learned is I am a cool loner. I'm an adjuster, I'm a chameleon. You know, outside of me not drinking no liquor, and I can exist in a group of 16, I can exist in a group of three, I can exist in a room full of whites. It doesn't matter. I can and I or I could be a solo crazy motherfucker. I could be solo by myself. And that's what happened when I was out there. I was like, I'm gonna go and I'm gonna just get the van. I'm gonna go check out these coffee. So, like the second, the second, the second day, um, I was about to leave to go get coffee at my favorite spot. They got a spot down there called Toxic Toxica Coffee, right? Toxic, Toxica coffee. I swear to God, Lewish. I swear to God, if you come down here one more time without having my cup of coffee, no, um it's toxica coffee. And I was gonna leave to go, and uh Zay was up, and he's like, I'm gonna roll with you. And then I think Megan was up and she came with me, and I'm missing somebody. Was it just us three? No, I'm missing somebody. Oh, oh, and Ellie. Ellie was with me. And because we had to go to they wanted us to go to the store. Um, so phone us to go to the store to like buy food and like they was gonna cook and shit. And I was like, Man, I I haven't had this, you know, my people done did they they time, you know. I'm looking at her like, my people done did their time. We ain't we ain't serving nobody no more. We we done did our time. And she was just really nice about it. So I said, okay, this time I'm gonna do it. My ancestors don't want me to do the shit, but this time I'm gonna do it. Give me the list, give me the money. Because I wasn't gonna pay for it myself. Give me the money, give me the money. And she gave me the money, and they all wanted to go. I was like, cool, because I was about to bounce out and went to my favorite spot, toxic. I got like this mint coffee, it was fire, it was flagged. We went to the Walmart, they got a Walmart down there. That Walmart looked like it was it was it was in Quentin, though. It wasn't a regular Walmart. This Walmart had very large fences up around it, but almost for sure it had some barbed wire on top, excuse me. And I said, This is barbed wire on top. This Walmart was surrounded. If I had to think about Guantanamo Bay, this is what Guantanamo Bay was surrounded like, and then the Walmart was sitting in the middle of it, and then we went in there, we got what we needed, and uh, of course, we came back, and that's what I started to learn. I was like, you know what? It's good down here, nothing's going on. I just started snatched the van in the morning and I was going to coffee spots. I got up for a sunset or a sunrise. What is up with me saying sunset? I got up for a sunrise, and it was beautiful. Over the do you know, it was a little to the to the to the to the left, because I think it's the east sunset, rise, sun, rise, shit, setting around. Yeah, so it was but but it was hitting the water really beautiful, and it's not you you gotta experience those things, you gotta see those things. That's why you ever hear you ever see motherfuckers, man, and you ever know people that like only listen to like like just murder music, just murder, just darken the heart. They could, you know, just murder music. Motherfucker, listen, you know what I'm saying? Listen to three doors down, man. Listen to a little Whitney Houston in your life. You know what I'm saying? Go see a sunrise, go see a sunset. You get too much of one thing and it leads you a certain way. I I love seeing shit like that. So I got up early in the morning. People wanted me to get them up. How I'm gonna get you up. People's like, oh, Shay, get me up in the morning. Shea, get me up. They don't call me Shay. Thad, get me up in the morning, Thad, give me up the morning. I say, look, okay, cool. Then I looked up. Y'all motherfuckers had dragged me to a club at and then when nobody got, we didn't get back to like three. I had to drive, and we didn't get back till three. I had to get up at six something. Y'all, y'all motherfuckers was hitting that juice. Now, listen, this is one of the things that I was they were talking about while we're on the trip, the the drinkers, and that that's 15 out of one. The drinkers were saying that they felt like the the the tequila down there was being watered down. Now, I don't know if that's the case because I did have a little pina colada. I ain't gonna lie.

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Do you like pina colana?

SPEAKER_02 27:16

I did have a little pina colada. I'm not gonna lie. All right, I did have a little one. And I wasn't, and I and I was hitting that thing. I even passed it off because I was like, man, I gotta drive. And I was like, I passed it off because I was like, I get drunk easy because this is this body's a temple. The only thing going in here is plant-based foods and and and sugar and shit that's plant-based because I still kind of eat bad, even though I'm vegan. I like to eat vegan cookies and shit. And uh I noticed that I was good to go. Ten minutes later, I was like, what the fuck? I'm good. I drink liquor with these guys, these people in the club. One shot, and I'm like, ooh, I gotta go sit down, girl. This shit is I'm daddy as shade. This is the I nerd. Um, but the overall experience is always really cool. Um watching, I gotta, I gotta, that's my thing that I've been on lately is just solo dolo. Like, don't care, do new stuff, um, just go do it. And I'm really in that zone of doing those things. That's why I just started busting out, leaving, going solo in the van and just riding around the city and looking at things. And next up on my list, because I just did I went solo to see uh Back to the Future in concert. And I've always seen these, and I wanted to go to the Home Alone one. I didn't make it to the Home Alone one. And what they do is they show you the movie, and then they have the orchestra play the score of the movie, the theme of the movie, the score of the movie. And while you're watching the movie, and it's beautiful, it's really beautiful. So imagine getting to hear John Williams's um score for for Home Alone, his his his theme for Home Alone while you're watching the movie. It sounds it's really there, it's really beautiful, and you get to to enjoy the movie with uh hundreds of other people. Um, it's a really cool experience. So when I went to see Back to the Future, I really, really, really was excited to see it. But I don't got people don't be people don't be there. Some people just not into the things that you're into, and some people don't even understand the uh the experience, meaning like you go for the experience. You know, you go for trying new things, you go for the experience. Most people just turn it off quick. You know, there are normal things that people feel as if these are the truth in doing things. Like, like I'm a foodie, I go to food places, that's dope. But if I'm gonna try some food, I I'm like, I don't even like heights, but if I find a way, if I end up there and they're like, man, they got like this, they like that you eat food up in the sky. I'm like, shit, you eat food up in the sky? They got some vegan options? Yeah, nigga, they got some vegan options. I'm like, oh, well, I'm gonna have to try to eat some food in the sky. Uh, you know, there's a lot of normal things that people do on a regular, and they those are the things that they love to do, or they consider those the cool things to do. For me, I'm like, yeah, I'm just gonna do different. I want to do get away from all the others. I'm an eye nerd, man. So I want to get away from all the others and start doing these things instead of waiting on people because you just wait and wait and wait, and you're looking for people that be a part of your community. Like, these my people, are these my people? Are these my people? Nah, fam. I'm just gonna go do it. So I went to Back to the Future, and that was a journey in itself because I kept waiting last minute. I was like, man, am I gonna go? I'm gonna go quit being a pussy because I didn't want to be skeptical, quit being a pussy. And then I finally bought the tickets. I bought the tickets and I bought the ticket. And I was like, it was a Sunday. I was like, it's the last time of the day, and I was like, all right, fuck it, we're gonna go. By the way, Orpheum, Orpheum Theater, get your get your update your website. Your ticket, you it can't look like it's gotta be, it's gotta be fluid, it's gotta be better, it's gotta look good, it's gotta look dope, it's gotta be better, all right? I can't get on there and struggle buying one ticket, it can't be like that. All right, get it, get it together, update that website. So, but I bought my ticket and I hopped on my scooter because that's how I travel right now, and I love my scooter. And looking at them gas prices, ladies and gentlemen, I'm winning. I'm winning. But I hopped on my scooter and it's downtown. I had never been to the Orpheum Theater before, and uh I was a little bit nervous, so I was lost one, and I'm like, I'm always downtown. Shit, I was doing parties downtown, so how the hell am I lost? It goes to show you you be so locked in on places that you just go that you really don't even be knowing where you're going. You don't even know the other stuff exists. You I go here, I go here, I go here, I go here in this area, and then you'd be like, I all of a sudden I gotta go over here, and you'd be like, How the fuck? I don't even know how to get there, and I'd be over in this area all the time. So I went to the wrong place and they had to point me, and I was two blocks away, and that that day had a little heat on it, had a little bit of smoke on it, and Shade had to walk two blocks to get to the Orpheum Theater. I was behind because I I had I seen videos about if you're late, you know, they shut the doors on you. So I was a little nervous because I was gonna be like seven minutes late. I was like, oh shit, I don't know if these niggas I'm sorry, I don't know if these humans are in there clapping. I don't know if they're in there clapping, the introductions. I don't know what they're gonna do. I don't know if they just start the movie and go right into it. I don't hopefully they don't shut the door on me and hopefully they don't try to play me and get my money back if they do that because I'm black and I want my money back, right? Cool. But I got there, um, and you know, I pull up my ticket, they scan my ticket, and then I had you know, when you're nervous again, you by yourself. You ain't with no, you ain't I ain't with a lady, I ain't with my boy, nothing like that. I'm by myself, so I'm like, oh yeah, you know, where to go, they point me where to go. I still miss my door. The other lady was super nice, she's like, it's back that way, stupid. And I went back in, I opened the door, and like, you know, I have my medals on everywhere now. The metals stay with me. My brain is probably getting fried from right here to here because I wear my meta oakly so much because I use them so much. Here, here, my whole shit is frying. And um, it was one of the cooler experiences, man. Because I am back back to the future is one of my top five movies, easy, maybe top three movies of all time. Easy, and I mean easy. I said five because I'm like, if I dig into my crates, I'm sure I might be able to find you know some that might, you know, the four, but it might be top three, easy. I love back to the future, and I've seen it a thousand times. It doesn't matter how many times I see it. Every time I watch it, I can watch it all the way through and still laugh at the same parts. It's just a really, really, really incredibly uh well done movie, smart movie, funny movie, timeless movie. It holds up all those things. So seeing it, it's not a problem. But seeing it with the orchestra was really cool and hearing those instruments right in front of you, right around you, and hearing them real clear. And you know, the score of that movie, the theme of that movie is beautiful. It's really dope. And that was a really dope experience until it was the intermission. I didn't know it was intermission time because I had to I had to take a leaker peaker. I had to PP Johnson, and I didn't know if that was coming. And all of a sudden I looked up, you know, right after she goes, uh, I don't know who it is, but I'ma find out they go to intermission house. Oh, it's intermission, so they was cutting up during the intermission. They was dun dun dun dun dun dun. They was cutting it up and then they stopped it. They was like, Okay, we done. And we go, we got we gotta go, y'all go pee. We gotta go pee. So I went to go use the bathrooms to line the bathroom. Man, I'm not used to waiting the lines. I'm VIP, man. I'm one of the more important more important people in the city. I'm just playing. And boom, bathroom. I was like, you know what? For the whole experience of people seeing it, I'm gonna buy some stuff at the concession stand. Now, they had a side that was just true liquor, which is which is real hilarious, because it's just true liquor over here. You can go over there and get you all the lick lick you want, all the porpoise you want. We can got we got it all back here. Mainly that John Wayne shit, that whiskey, you know, they ain't got all the the Don Julio. I seen all the real tequilas and all that shit. I mean all the vodkas and stuff, and then the whiskeys and the bourbons and all that, and they had wine over there, and then they had another line that I was in where you could get like little beers or something, and they had like popcorn and candy. They was out of a lot of stuff, man. I'm like, hey bro, I need to stock this joint up. So I came in, they had some cheddar popcorn and some Eminem's. I bought some cheddar popcorn Eminem's. You know, I'm vegan, I can't eat either one of those, but I'm gonna be real with you. I didn't do it for the animals. I'm sorry, G O D. I didn't do it for the animals, I did it for me. So sometimes at that time, I put a little cow titty in me. I had a little dairy because of that comes in them Eminem's and that jeddo. It was a small, it was, it didn't, it didn't affect me like I thought it was gonna affect me. I'm lying, I had a little bit of gas at the end. But but uh I was out there and I was going, I bought my stuff, went back up the stairs, and I was gonna walk in. I had to find out. I told you, man, I'm a nigga, man. I'm a nerd. I've never done a lot of this shit from the city of Kansas City and from the hood of Kansas City. I've never done a lot of shit. So I looked, I was walking with my stuff and I was about to go in. She's like, Oh, excuse me, you can't take that in there. She sounded like Juba Jahia Doubtfire. You can't take that in there, my dear. And um, I was like, Oh, my bad. And so I was eating my stuff out there, and everybody was out there, and it was kind of slow-mo for me because I'm watching everybody with their kids. They got their kids with them, they're dressed like Marty and uh his mom. Or they I seen a couple that was dressed like Marty from uh Back to the Future 2 and then dressed like his mom from uh the original, and I seen couples and all these things. And I wanted to ask some of the dudes, like, man, how did you find your woman that is into this? Because you know, you trying again, this shit is like a lot of people aren't gonna sign up to go see a classic movie and the orchestra, they don't understand the experience. It's like somebody telling me to go see the opera. I can go to the opera for the experience. Now, will I sleep? Probably shading in the age. Where if you give me a comfortable enough seat, I give you something to talk about, and it ain't nothing but Z flying out of these. I give you something to talk about. Um and but I wanted to ask some of the guys there, like, how the hell did you find your woman that's gonna come here and see these things, you know, to for this experience? And and I've had I have women behind me that were knowing back to the future, line for line. Now these is these is way older women. Now get it, understand I'm old, all right? But you know what I'm saying? These behind me, you know, you know what I'm saying? They're they're picking out their real estate upstairs. You know what I'm saying? They were older, but they had seen back to the future. Oh, I better go. I'm gonna go to hell. Oh man, but sorry. Um sometimes I I know that I laugh at myself, but I know that oh he's gonna have some shit to talk to me about. But um, they were knowing these movies, the the movie Line for Line. That's really dope. So, but yeah, the experience to go to that by myself and doing that, I felt really good. So now I'm like, oh what we're gonna do now because I gotta take my bike to the shop tomorrow. It's gonna get worked on, and then I'm going to WonderCon. WonderCon was the first Comic Con I ever been to, and I'm going to WonderCon. I'm gonna drive my my scooter out there um to Anaheim and go to WonderCon. I love Comic Cons, man. There's like for me, there's those experiences are great, and I gotta get back out to San Diego. But um those experiences are great. It's always a good time seeing the seeing uh the cosplay, seeing what's new, seeing what's out there, seeing what uh actors or uh celebrity guests that are coming there to speak and talk, producers, comic book artists, writers, all those things, being able to get autographs, being able to buy memorabilia, that experience is fun because you're in a place of like creative minds and people who appreciate all this creativity from things you grew up on. And it's again, it's it's it's finding a community that enjoys all that with you. That's a really tough task in life. You know, you can find people that you can enjoy some things with, but things that you core enjoy, it's really hard to find that core community where, oh, these my people, man. Like, we really fuck with this type of shit. And then I can get out here and I can laugh, giggle, and talk about those things. And that's the journey I'm on. So I'm just going by myself. I'm like buying a ticket, I'm gonna drive out there. I the craziest thing I'm gonna do is just try to. I I want to go to Disneyland now, and then there's a fine line, right? Disneyland, right? Because I like Disneyland. Now I haven't graduated to California Avengers because I'm still a bitch. Who right? I'm still a bitch. I haven't graduated to California Avengers yet because them roller coasters look legit, fam. I got clowned, Melinda Clark. Look her name up. I got clowned by her daughter when I did my first WonderCon. Her daughter clowned me because she was like, ah, you were because they all, I was with we the first time I went to Disneyland, it was VIP, or the second time I went to Disneyland, it was VIP. Yazzy and his uh his ex-wife, um, or yeah, I can say that. Yazzy and Tinsel. Because Tinsel's a sweetheart, I love her. And they got us VIP in Disneyland. And I, if you go, I'm not gonna tell you the story, goddammit. You go back and listen to previous episodes, you'll find how I know them and why I got VIP at Disneyland. But we have VIP, and they want, and I'm with a bunch of TV actors at that time that are on TV doing their thing, and they're all trying to convince me to get on this roller coaster. And I'm like, dude, I'm not getting on a roller coaster, I'm not doing that, I'm not doing it. And then they're like, no, get on the roller coaster, you could do it, you could do it, you could do it, you could do it. And so they convinced me to get on like a miniature roller coaster. But guess what, ladies and gentlemen? This miniature roller coaster had a nice little, a nice little gift for me. And this gift was is that every time it hit like a bank, it felt like it was about to tip over. So imagine somebody who don't like roller coasters getting on the roller coasters that you think is a small roller coaster, but this roller coaster ride has the ability to act like it's about to fall off its railings. That's what I was on. And then when they saw it happen to me, I got a bunch of TV actors who were doing their thing right then and there, laughing at me, and my boy sees my face, he starts dying laughing, and everybody laughing at me, and I'm just happy I got off that ride alive. It was insanity. It was insanity, ladies and gentlemen. And then the next day, Melinda Clark's daughter, who's an actor, her daughter comes and she's like, ha, you're afraid to get on the teacups. I stared at her and I had to laugh because that's a little white child, and I was really big at that time with no facial hair. So I look like somebody that definitely was either doing security for them, or I just got off of thinking about robbing a motherfucker. So, and I had to laugh. Ah, little girl. Yeah, climb me about the teacups, huh? Because I I don't like to ride fast rides and get up high. Okay, okay, little girl. But I uh eventually did better at Disneyland, Indiana Jones, all that stuff. I started doing better. Like I was like, all right, I'm doing rides now, I could stick to that. And so I'm thinking about going to Disneyland. I don't know how that's gonna look. I don't know if I'm able to go by myself because it's a kid's place. But I feel like adults are supposed to be able to go, but I feel like you gotta go with like your girl or something. I don't even know if two men can go to Disneyland. Well, okay, listen. Stop it. Don't don't. Let's just try to throw you off. Play a little Dewey music. Just try to throw you off real quick. Think about Dewey's music. Remember how Dewey would walk in, that's his music right there. Think about that. Not saying it, two dudes can't go. It's not usual. So now then you being a solo guy going to Disneyland, it looks a little weird, but I promise you, I'm going strictly for I want to get the the the the the the the the the vegan ice cream the oh damn it the dull ice cream right I want to get a churro fuck you get churro uh I Want to go see what new rise, new Star Wars stuff they got there. I want to buy some things, man. I just want to go be a big ass kid. I'm gonna go by myself. I don't think it's weird, right? I should be able to just go without people being like, why is this dude here by himself? You know what I'm saying? And people pulling their kids away from me. It's not like that. I'm just trying to go enjoy Disneyland. And I might, and I think I might go next door, record myself talking to my audience and telling them I'm gonna get on a roller coaster. I might do one roller coaster. Because I'm in the journey of life where I'm doing things. I'm in the journey of life where I'm just risking it for the biscuit. And if I get called home, I get called home. I'm doing things solo, I don't care. You know what I'm saying? I'm going out of Vegas to buy some coochie. I don't care, man. I don't care, man. I'm trying to enjoy everything that I can that I enjoy doing and having the experiences that I want to experience. Because people, man, they'll stall you out. You be waiting on folks to go to certain countries and you want to go visit places. I want to go visit Australia. That's on the list. I'll go by myself. The fucked up thing about going to Australia by myself is I know that I'll go, and then that'd be the time that I finally die because I was by myself, and then the big spider bit me. Because all they know is everything, everything over there is deadly. They don't know, they don't know peace in Australia. They don't know what peace is. Every insect's got an issue with everybody, and everything kills everybody. Everything you come across, you you walk across the street, I'm gonna get coffee, but then you see like a little gnat, and that's like one of the most poisonous gnats in the world. You're like, it's a gnat. I don't see it coming, and it lands on your face and you die because you were in Australia. That's how it goes, ladies and gentlemen. You can die in any moment from those insects and watch you from Australia get on here and be like, that's not the case. Yes, it is the case. I'm an American, that's how I think it's all fucked up, but I love your country. I want to come there now. Um, I just want to talk about this last little bit as I finish up my podcast, right? As I finish up this episode 99 before episode 100, which I think was fantastic. I told you about Rocky Point, my experience, the back to the future. I've been giving you some clean some some motivation to do stuff by yourself. You know, go go enjoy things by yourself. Now, I'm not saying go out there and be die alone. I'm not saying that. I don't want to die alone, you know. But people stall you out. So since you fuck that shit, go experience it. I don't know. I can't make it to a cruise yet. I ain't got there yet. I can do a roller coaster. I'm really thinking about doing a roller coaster when I get out to California Avengers. I'm gonna buy me a little ticket, say I'm going to California. I said, What are you going to California Adventure for? I'm just going over there one time to get on the roller coaster. That's it. One roller coaster. I might just have like a worker pick a roller coaster for me. I say, Man, I'm a rookie. I'm a rookie roller coaster, and I want you to pick me a roller coaster to get on, and I'm gonna get on that joint. Don't put me on nothing crazy. If you put me on something crazy, little worker boy, I'm gonna go ahead and punch you when I get off this bitch. And I got a slamming right hook, right down the foul line, ladies and gentlemen. But um, having the scooter in the midst of this gas situation is crazy. I never thought that I would actually own a scooter, and I talked about this in previous episodes. Yeah, I always say that because I want you to listen to my previous episodes because they're fun. Anyway, so I didn't ever think I would own this scooter, and I ride the shit out of this scooter. It is my mode of transportation right now. I don't bullshit, I ride this thing up and down, up and down. Let me make sure my shit's still recording. Okay. Up and down, up and down. I record this joint. I ride this joint on me. And it is the most fun-freeing experience for me. And I feel like it's gonna be a gateway to me getting something a little bit more, a little bit more powerful, a little bit more sit, but right now I'm enjoying it, and I do, and that's why I'm taking out to Anaheim and I have it all mapped out with Jat Chat GPT. We've talked about it. Um, I think my bike gets 200 miles and it's a 3.2 or 3.7 gallon tank, I get 200 miles on it. Um, but you, but man, my my challenger, I only put um the expense of 93 in there. If I was driving my challenger right now, which looks like I'm gonna have to get back to because it's already 106. You Elon Musk drivers, man, y'all probably went, y'all probably happy as hell, but that 93? That 93 busting seven dollars, cuz maybe eight down here. I'm not for sure. Cause the unless it by itself is four, I think it cost me like 12 the other day, 12 to fill up my tank. 200 miles on their hands, 180 if I'm driving like a piece of shit. If I'm riding like a piece of shit, I should say. Meaning riding like a piece of shit means that I'm just dipping on them. I'm revving my shit up. But if I drive like I got a cop behind me and I'm back in the hood, I'm be good. 200 miles is what I'm gonna get. I'm very happy about my scooter, and I'm taking my scooter in tomorrow. It's one of the best buys I've ever gotten. If you're in a city and you don't like have kids or you don't, you know, you don't do a lot. Like I don't do a lot, it's just me and my dog, Winston, right? So I go to the store. Most of the time, my dog looks at me like, Nigga, you go into the store, make sure you load up. I don't load up, I only get like what to eat that day, and maybe something half a day the next day. I don't do all that. And I have this big ass, fat ass compartment under my seat, and I'd be loading shit on there. I had a lady's time and say, Oh my god, you have that under your seat? And I was like, Yes, I do have this under my seat. She was like, Oh my god, this is so cool. And I was like, Yes, it is so cool. And then I uh proceeded to hop on one leg over the seat, bam, put my shades on, told her where we're going. We don't need roads. I think she got wet off of that, but that was just maybe that's just all in my head. But the scooter by was cool. If you are a person that, you know, doesn't do, I'm telling you, woman, man, doesn't get you one that goes 45-50 miles per hour. You will be surprised how much you do on that thing and how much you move. You go meet your homegirl. Well, can't do happy hour because you got the ride, but you can still do it. If you don't live that far, hop on the scooter, go to work, go to school. You'll save a ton. I'm watching, I'm I I pull up now to get gas, and I look over at the person getting gas for their car, and they're crying, man. They're crying, and I mean full out balling. You know how you your mama used to tell you, like, maybe you messed up at school and she got called to school, and she tell you when I get home and tear your ass up and you was already crying. She's like, You better clean up. I'm still gonna, it don't matter what you, you know. You get it don't matter what you do, ass whooping, you could clean up, clean up her room, um, go out there and paint the whole house. You could change tires on the old car that don't run no more. You can you could take a bullet for one of your brothers, it don't matter. You if you got a designated ass whooping coming, it's still coming. And so you knew that that was the real deal, so you just would cry no matter what. That's how they be crying at the gas tank. I'll be seeing them, they be at the gas pump, just crying, just putting putting ten dollars in there and just hurting. Remember you, man. There's a time in my day, ladies and gentlemen, that I would drive my friends, me and my friends around. I'd like, man, I got five on the tank. I used to say you got five on it. Do you got five on gas? And that meant a lot. I could do damage with five. Oh man, I could do damage with five dollars. We're just five dollar people. I could do damage now. Five dollars. And I feel like you could damn even get a ticket for putting five dollars worth of gas in your car. Cause what's it gonna do? What's it gonna do for you? It ain't gonna do shit. I think my scooter was one of the best buys I've ever had. Now, granted, my dumbass bought an Italian scooter, an older Italian scooter, vintage Italian scooter, and the parts take forever. I ordered brake pads. Y'all can stay with me or y'all can go now, but this is might be I might drop some jewels in here. I ordered brake pads. Them things took a month to get here. They had to be shipped from overseas, I think like Europe or somewhere over there. They had to be shipped over here. And the same thing, I had to get a CVT belt. I don't know shit about CVT belt. I only know about ass whipping belts and pants belts. Like, I don't know about CVT belts. I had to get that order. All the parts are cheap, but they're taking forever to get here. They just got here two days ago. My brake pad, I I bought, I started buying for my buying parts for my bike. What's what is it now? March, mid-March, we're coming close to April. I started buying parts at the beginning of February. No shit. I got my scooter in June, July, January. Sorry about that. I got my scooter in January, rode it around. I was like, well, let me get some of this stuff worked on and fixed just in case. Get some stuff changed out, oil changed, filters, and all that stuff. February, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just now getting all my parts. March 19th. Tomorrow I take, or it got in March 18th of 2026. So I when I go in there tomorrow, I'm gonna tell him, man, just order all the important shit, have this shit sitting here because god damn. You know what I'm saying? But uh, that is my episode. I am Thaddeus Shade. This is the odd nerd. Go buy a scooter, it'll save you a lot. Whether a gas goes down or continues to go up, it'll save you. That's why the other countries that drive a bunch of scooters everywhere because they like to save on the gash, and you can whip and dip and cripping through the street. Um, this is episode 99, episode 100 is coming next week. And uh, like always, I appreciate you. Have a good week and pay.